India’s laws against rape “have been ineffective in the face of a patriarchal and misogynistic culture,” says Sonia Faleiro in The New York Times. What’s unusual about the Dec. 16 gang rape killing is …

A growing heap of evidence shows that the American century is over, says Andrew J. Bacevich in Salon. That doesn’t mean that America is over, he says, but it does mean that America needs to wake up to …